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@timp29 Little late for that, they already have.

@MontyCircus Thank you!

Honestly I'm just waiting for someone to make a supercut of all the Statler and Waldorf appearances, that's all I care about.

@NintendoWife No, they have had an Indie World in November or December every year since 2018, and all but one year that had a November Indie World had a Nintendo focused direct in December instead, usually on a specific game. The chances of one occurring this year aren't exactly negligible, Switch 2 or not.

I highly doubt we'll get a 1st party direct, but no direct at all isn't the most likely option either.

@NintendoWife Why do they have an indie world literally every December right before Christmas? I'd assume the same reason would apply here.

Totally expect an indie world.

@N00BiSH I don't have one, but I've used my friends and it seems to not have any issues.

@Zeebor15 In addition to others mentioned, Game & Watch Gallery 2 and 4 both have the remaining DK Game & Watch game in them that aren't in 3 (though a bunch were never included in any gallery game).

@Itachi2099 It'll probably only support a limited selection of games, and not play most of the big 1st party titles.

@splatoonaddict This leak started with them outing exactly which employee they phished to get it and a ton of their personal information because they didn't bother blocking it out in screenshots.

@kfflscnt ...There's no farming or dating in this?

Mine is pretty dang nice when playing Pokemon, XC2, and a few other titles with resolution and/or aliasing issues. But on anything that already performs well, it's basically unnoticeable.

I don't mind having gotten it a discount, but it's not a must-buy by any means.

@-wc-
Reasons for BC:

• BC means I don't need to keep my old system, and can trade it in
• BC means that I don't have to swap systems to play Switch 1 games
• BC means that Switch game online services will continue through the entire Switch 2 generation.
• BC means I only have to bring one system for travel/parties if I want to bring games from both systems with me
• BC means the NSO library is likely not going to get reset (AGAIN).
• BC means that games that don't require the power of the Switch 2 don't have to be rushed onto it, allowing better support for the Switch until I upgrade, especially among indies and remasters.
• BC may (but only maybe) mean that older games that struggled with performance will be able to perform better on new hardware. It'd be nice to play Echoes of Wisdom w/o frame drops.

@dskatter Nintendo always refers to games as software in financial reports, whether physical or digital.

Woolly World definitely deserves a Switch port as the best Yoshi game of all time.

3&4 are stuck waiting on GameMaker to patch their new game swap feature, so Toby doesn't have his usual level of control over when they drop. Given the public play test of the updated 1+2 hasn't happened yet, don't expect a shadow drop

@Kruegerino I mean, the reason to buy would be if you want to play with all the QoL, not the graphics IMO. Maps, better controls, reworked bosses and puzzles, etc.

Anyways, it's still nowhere near as egregious as TLOU Remastered or any of the other games that were literally just a graphics update, they're at least attempting to address all the games issues. Whether they succeed or not we'll have to see.

I mean, I'll probably get this on PS5 anyways, I don't see myself playing this game much in handheld mode.

@alexybubble I mean it's possible, but Konami has a working (and very good) DS emulator via M2 (The recent Castlevania collection), whereas PS2 / GCN are notoriously difficult to emulate in comparison.

Tag Force is middle ground, since they don't have a PSP emulator for Switch (afaik), but it's nowhere near as hard to make one.

It really depends what the budget on this game is.

So many more implies there's at least 4 more games in the collection... wonder which? Stairway, Tournament 2004 + 2005 + 2006, Duel Academy seems like the most likely group of games, with DDM / Destiny Board Traveler as wild cards. But I can't entirely count out the Tag Force games, or any of the DS titles either?

@Gryffin Smash Bros, Pokken, Mario Kart

@JohnnyMind The OG Animal Crossing was cross-gen, but only in Japan.

Giant hands meant New 3DS XL was my jam.

Woah, is the the first time BS content has appeared on... Well literally anything other than the SNES?

We'll see, everything so far has made it look like it's 1, 2 hours at most.

@KingMike As someone who originally played the games on CRT, I can confirm that it was definitely not visible on NTSC CRTs. That was weird to see during my replay. I highly doubt it would have been visible on most PAL sets either, overscan definitely was more than 2 pixels.

As much as I like NA, Europe's designs actually feel relevant for this game.

@deadmaker https://gamerant.com/concord-removed-from-playstation-libraries/
Here's one!

@deadmaker Nope, this is in response to sony deleting games off people's hardware as soon as they connect to the internet, not just removing from the storefront.

@IceEarthGuard The Crew and Concord are the two I'm aware of. Both only the PS versions afaik?

@NintonicGamer Both Sony and Ubisoft have deleted games off people's systems with no warning (The Crew and Concord) and revoked their licenses. Sony at least had the decency to refund peeps but...

@Tasuki They could always use Jennika instead.

@OctolingKing13 Controllers are usually marked as controllers in filings like these, that's what's weird. Anyways, an MM Wave sensor doesn't make sense in a device you hold, assuming they're using it for it's most common use, human position detection.

Frankly, I think we're looking at Nintendo doing Kinect, which is hilarious to me.

@Arkay Bayonetta remains the only IP I do expect Nintendo to purchase down the line, just because the whole situation is silly as is. But with Kojima gone maybe Nintendo won't invest in it...? Idek.

@Haruki_NLI Even back when that happened there were hints that W101's trademark may have been involved in that deal. It is nice to see trademarks get into less complicated licensing scenarios, makes additional games more likely.

Still... I wonder when we'll get the next Astral Chain will be? Nintendo never buys IPs (literally even all the companies they've bought have been IP free), I can't imagine they'd do that just to sit on it.

Regarding CRTs, The DKC trilogy is absolutely one that's best played with a really good CRT filter these days. The games were clearly built to take advantage of everything CRTs could offer to squeeze out those extra bits of graphics. Even the Switch's CRT filter is far better than playing it with sharp pixels.

That goes for a good chunk of the SNES's library though. The more complicated pixel art allowed for way more art tricks in that generation.

Anyways, DKC is amazing, though not as good as DKC2 (that's one that might actually hold up against ALttP / Super Metroid, with far less... 'BS' design decisions.

@Truegamer79 I'd say 5 for BotW and 7 for TotK. BotW has Hyrule Castle beyond the core four, and TotK has the four temples, Hyrule Castle (again), Construct Factory / Spirit Temple (basically one dungeon across two locations, similar to Spirit Temple in OOT), and the final Chasm.

While you can probably argue about Chasm / both Hyrule Castles, Spirit Temple is pretty clearly the fifth major dungeon of TotK.

@Elbarbo To be fair to PS5, every system tends to drop for a couple weeks prior to the release of a revision. We'll see what happens when Pro launches.

@PikminMarioKirby February 21st this year had Battletoads and Killer Instinct drop on a Wednesday. May 15th had Mario Land.

@DripDropCop146 Ah yes, 3 Mario is Missings, Mario Teaches Typing, Hotel Mario, the Wand of Gamelon, Mario Party 1-8 + the mobile games, Mario Kart 1-6, 4 Mario Tennis, 4 Mario Golf, Mario DDR Mix, Super Sluggers, 5 Dr. Marios, 2 Sports Mixes, Pinball Land, Picross, 3 Paper Marios, 3 Mario and Luigi's, Super Mario RPG, Links Crossbow Training, Four Swords Adventure and more, all remastered in HD in one collection. Very likely.

@LadyCharlie As someone who's played 3.0.1 pretty much daily since it came out... you can't be missing much, the game is bug free.

I love the flowers. Won't get a plush but I did think they were wonderful.

@UltimateOtaku91 @Tibob
I'd assume Prime 2 & 3 won't have any story impact on 4 whatsoever, the plot points they introduced were all wrapped up nicely. You should be looking for Hunters instead.

@Zeebor15 You should probably listen to them then.

@Zeebor15 I think you might need to adjust your thinking. Looking at sales data in the last 3-5 years has show a major swing towards the purchasing of full size titles digitally, to the point where it's about 50/50 on average.

They really want to boost NSO numbers this year. Wonder if they're worried it'll collapse when Splatoon 3 ends with no 1st party GaaS left active other than kinda sorta ScVi.

Gotta go Team Future, Deep Cut deserves the help

@TheSaneInsanity I'm excited, just not as excited as I am for Prime 4 lol.

@traceman Wha? Based on what data? Not saying you're definitely wrong, but I also haven't seen anything but JP numbers for the remaster. As of this week JP only shows 150,591, while we know it sold over 1 mil in Japan alone on the 3DS.

Admittedly the rest of the worlds data could theoretically make up for the shortfall, but... it doesn't seem likely it's anywhere near outsold the 3DS version (yet at least)

@dew12333 Yeah, I'm a computer engineer, so working with these systems is actually something I do lol. I can tell you right now that the way it's taught is pretty simple:

1. Take an image / video
2. Tag it with useful keywords
3. Convert it into a series of chunks
4. Use those chunks to reinforce / weaken nodes in the algorithm.

(Okay yes this is absolutely simplified, but the core idea is this)

It's a little more complicated than tracing, but there's no learning going on. A neural net can only spit out replicas of what was fed into it, in terms of the lines and shapes. Due to the nature of the way they're programmed, there's literally nothing in it capable of understanding why the lines, shapes, and colors were chosen, an then making decisions off of that.

Instead, it just takes the inputs (Tags + a random seed value) and generates something from it. Given the same tags and the same RNG seed value, it will always produce the exact same product. In other words, it's not making artistic decisions. Which is why things like six / four fingered hands are so common.